DBMS > Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. AllegroGraph vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.77
Rank	#214	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#187	Overall
	#30	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.26
Rank	#92	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

allegrograph.com

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

Developer

Alibaba

Franz Inc.

Amazon

Google

Initial release

2016

2004

2012

2015

2023

Current release

8.0, December 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

bulk load of XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SPARQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

with Federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Atomic single-row operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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